Word Meanings - KNIGHT-ER-RATIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry.

• Knight-errant
  A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.
• KNIGHTBACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• KNIGHTBANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of batt
• Knight-errantries
  of Knight-errantry
• KNIGHTBARONET
  See Baronet.
• Knight-errantry
  The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme.
• KNIGHTERRANT
  A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.
• Knight-er-ratic
  Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry.
• KNIGHTERRANTRY
  The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian [i. e., conscience] of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'erru
• KNIGHTERRATIC
  Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry. [R.] Quart. Rev.
• KNIGHTMARSHAL
  An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties. Wharton.
• KNIGHTSERVICE
  A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.

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